#love

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love. ↗

— Richelle Mead

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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #love

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ↗

— Harper Lee

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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#few #love #none #wrong

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #life

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#poetry #love

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#love

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

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You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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